Compound tool



W. AND P. CARON.

GDMPOUND TOOL.

APPLlcmoN min ms4 s. m2o4 1,365,658. I Patented Jun. 18, I9?? `UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILFRED CARON, OF RUMFORD, MAINE, A ND PHILIETASI CARON, 0F AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOUND TOOL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, Winrnmn CARON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rumford, county of Oxford, State of Maine, and PHILEAs CARON, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Amesbury, in the county oi' Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Compound Tools, of which the following is a specification. j

his invention relates chiefiy to tools used by barbers, and is embodied in a compound tool which includes the well known tweezers, and a pick carried by the tweezers, and adapted to be inoperatively housed between the jaws thereof, and to be projected from the rigid end of the tweezers and used for purposes such as the removal of dead hairs and of concealed hairs from the faces and necks of customers, the tweezers constituting a handle whereby the pick may be manipulated.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a art of this speciication,-

igure 1 is a side view, on an enlarged scale, of a compound tool embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the pick. i

Figs. 5 and 6 are views simllar to Fig. 1, showing different adaptations of the tool, portions of the jaws being broken away.

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Figs. 5 and 6, illustrating the operation of reversing the ick. p The same reference characters indicate the sameparts in all of the figures.

In the drawin 12 and 13 represent resilient tweezer jaws, rigidly connected at one end to form a neck. As best shown by Figs. 1 and 3, the neck wmay be formed by interposing between the inner ends of the jaws two spacing pieces 14, which are brazed, or otherwise rigidly secured to the jaws, and are spaced apart so that the neck as a whole is provided with a longitudinal aperture or passage 15, forming a guide. The free ends of the jaws normally spring apart, as shown by Fig. 2. The jaw 12 is provided with a longitudinal slot 16. Slidably connected with the slotted jaw 1 2 is a pick 17, which is movable endwise 1n the slotted neck. The slotted jaw and pick are provided with elements of yielding conning means for yieldingly confining the pick with its point within the aperture 15 of the neck, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2, the pick being movable endwise to project its point from the neck, as shown by Fig. 5, and enable the tweezers to serve as a handle for the pick. v

One element of said confining means is a resilient metal plate or keeper 18, connected by a rivet 19 with the jaw 12, and provided at its free end portion with a boss 20. The other element of said confining means is the rounded head 21 of a rivet 22 rigidly secured to the pick 17. The arrangement is such that when the pick is in the position shown by Figs. 1 and 2, the boss 20 yieldably engages the head 21 and holds the pick in the position shown, the end portion of the pick being confined within the neck aperture 15, and guarded by the neck. The pick is provided with ears 23, having milled edges which project from opposite edges of the pick, and outwardly from opposite edges of the jaws, and form a grip engageable by thumb and finger to move the pick relatively to the tweezers.

7e prefer to make the pick double-ended and reversible, one of its ends being provided with a point 17a, and its opposite end with a hook 17h. The keeper 18 is adapted to be swung on the rivet 19, and thus displaced, as shown by Fig. 7. When the keeper is displaced the pick may be moved until its rivet 22 is at the inner end of the slot 16, so that the pick is entirely withdrawn from the neck aperture 15, and is free to swing and reverse its ends and permit the end having the hook 17b to be projected from the neck, as indicated by Fig. 6.

The apertured neck 14, and the jaws 12 and 13 connected thereby, constitute a body part forming tweezers, the neck constituting also a guide. The pick 17 constitutes an extension part movable in said guide and adajgited by the cooperation of the headed stud 21 and the longitudinal slot 16 in the jaw 12, to have an endwise and a swinging movement relative to the body part.

The arrangement is such that the extension part may be housed partl'y between the jaws and partly in the neck, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2, so that swinging movements of the extension part are prevented, loose endwise movements of the extension part being at the same time prevented by the keeper 18. The extension part may also be moved endwise to withdraw it from the neck, and then swung as indicated vby Fig. 7, so that either of its ends may be projected from the neck, as shown by Figs. 5 and (i, the operation of initially swinging the extension part being facilitated by the projecting ears 23.

We claim:

l. In an article of the character described, a body part composed of resilient jaws and an apertured neck forming a guide, and connecting and spacing the jaws at one end of the body part, so that the neck and jaws constitute tweezers, one of the jaws being provided with a longitudinal slot, and an extension part formed to slide longitudinally in the guide provided by the apertured neck, and having a headed stud between its ends adapted to slide and turn in said slot, the arrangement being such that the extension part may be housed partly between the jaws, and partly in the neck. turned end for end between the jaws, and projected either end Jforward 'from the neck.

2. ln an article of the character described, a body part composed of resilient jaws and an apertured neck forming a guide, and connecting and spacing the jaws at one end of the body part, so that the neck and jaws constitute tweezers, one of the jaws being provided with a longitudinal slot, and an extension part formed to slide longitudinally in the guide provided by the apertured neck, and having a headed stud between its ends adapted to slide and turn in said slot, the arrangement being such that the extension part may be housed partly between the jaws, and partly in the neck, turned end for end between the jaws, and projected either end forward from the neck, the slotted jaw being provided with a resilient keeper adapted to yieldingly engage the headed stud when the extension part is housed.

3. In an article of the character descrilied. a body part composed of resilient aws and an apertured neck forming a guide, and connecting and spacing the jaws at one end of the body part, so that the neck and jaws constitute tweezers, one of the jaws being provided with a longitudinal slot, and an extension part ierined to slide longitudinally in the guide provided by the apertured neck, and having a headed stud between its ends adapted to slide and turn in said slot, the arrangement being such that the eiitension part may he housed partly between the jaws, and piu-tlvY in the neck. turned end 'for end between the jaws, and projected either end forward from the neck, the extension member being provided with ears project-ing in opposite directions :from the aws and forming a grip ongzigoable b v :i thumb and linger.

ln testimony whereof we have ailixed our signatures.

VVlLFR-ED CARON. PHILEAS CARON. 

